T-Rex in the Real World Chosen Short Course for Pointwise User Group Meeting

FORT WORTH, TX (26 September 2011) –
T-Rex in the Real World: Troubleshooting Difficult Grids will be the
topic of the training short course on 8 November during the Pointwise
User Group Meeting in Fort Worth, TX. The topic was chosen by Pointwise
users during a poll.

T-Rex, or anisotropic tetrahedral extrusion, is Pointwise's viscous
unstructured meshing technique. Dr. Chris Sideroff and Travis Carrigan
will discuss how to use this tool for dealing with complex mesh
generation problems.

The course will cover meshing of narrow gaps, high curvature regions,
transitioning from viscous to non-viscous boundaries and growing layers
from quadrilateral surface meshes. Each of these will include how to
determine the source of the problem, will give an overview of the
appropriate strategy to resolve it and show specific examples that
demonstrate the solution.

Dr. Sideroff joined Pointwise in September 2007 after working as a
petroleum engineer for the NATCO Group, a CAD engineer for ARV
Development, and a computer technician for Harddata Ltd. Dr. Sideroff
earned both a B.S. and M.S. in mechanical engineering from the
University of Alberta in 2000 and 2003. He earned a Ph.D. in mechanical
engineering from Syracuse University in 2009, where his dissertation
subject was “Detailed Examinations of the Human Micro-Environment by
CFD”.

Travis Carrigan joined Pointwise as a technical sales engineer after
completing his M.S. in aerospace engineering at the University of Texas
at Arlington in May 2011. He interned at Pointwise beginning May 2008,
producing demonstration and application videos and working in technical
support, doing grid projects and quality assurance testing. During a
prior internship at Vought Aircraft Industries, Mr. Carrigan worked as a
quality engineer on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner Program. His thesis
subject was “Aerodynamic Shape Optimization of a Vertical Axis Wind
Turbine.” He received his B.S. in aerospace engineering in 2009 from
UTA.

For more information about the user group meeting, see www.pointwise.com/ugm.
Early registration discounts end 30 September.

Pointwise, Inc. is solving the top problem facing engineering analysts
today - mesh generation for computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The
company's Gridgen and Pointwise software generates structured,
unstructured and hybrid meshes; interfaces with CFD solvers, such as
ANSYS FLUENT, STAR-CD, ANSYS CFX and OpenFOAM® as well as many neutral
formats, such as CGNS; runs on Windows (Intel and AMD), Linux (Intel
and AMD), Mac and Unix, and has scripting languages that can automate CFD
meshing. Large manufacturing firms and research organizations worldwide
rely on Pointwise as their complete CFD preprocessing solution.